United States or Christmas Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Just think, you'll never see it again. If, on the other hand, you carry it to 'Uncle' you can take it out again as soon as you have a little money." But she lost her pains, she saw and at last consented to bring up a kind of dealer in toilet-articles, an excellent honest man, she declared, in whom one could put the most absolute confidence.
I took a pair of pajamas and a few toilet-articles from my bag. He would not let me have my razors, or any of the packets of papers or my money belt. When he had taken my grip he demanded my clothes, and left me in my pajamas and locked the door, with a growl of caution about monkey-business. "We hain't takin' no chances with gents like ye be," he said.
Babbitt's dressing-table with toilet-articles of almost solid silver, the plain twin beds, between them a small table holding a standard electric bedside lamp, a glass for water, and a standard bedside book with colored illustrations what particular book it was cannot be ascertained, since no one had ever opened it.
It was hard to leave the kindly Herbert Grays of the flat, but Una made the break and arranged all her silver toilet-articles which consisted of a plated-silver hair-brush, a German-silver nail-file, and a good, plain, honest rubber comb on the bureau in Mrs. Lawrence's room. With the shyness of a girl on her first night in boarding-school, Una stuck to Mrs.
I took also a few articles which I selected from Marlowe's bedroom, as bearing the most distinct of the innumerable finger-prints which are always to be found upon toilet-articles in daily use. I already had in my possession, made upon leaves cut from my pocket diary, some excellent finger-prints of Marlowe's, which he had made in my presence without knowing it.
Word Of The Day